Jan Vertonghen Quotes

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

You don't create a big and strong team easily.

When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.

I've been on a bunch of teams in my career.

For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

Tactics, gameplan and players are all influential in how a team performs but the question is how to manage every individual in your charge and get them to play like a finely tuned orchestra.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

People want to see how we get teams to come together so quickly. They want to see how we get young guys to play so hard and so unselfish. I'm fine with that. I have no problem sharing that.

Whether you're a founder, a leader, or an individual contributor, building a strong team is critical to your success.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

When you bring a lot of new players in, that is the hardest thing, getting everyone playing together.

When I'm talking to my teammates, being the vocal leader, going up and down, pushing everyone, they tend to follow.

I've had the opportunity to have different style teams with similar identities but opposite identities in some ways.

Every team knows its strength.

There's no perfect team.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

My aim is to get the team to work hard and stay strong together.

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.

I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most important thing. After that, you can create tactics, but we have to create something special with ourselves.

When you are in a big team, there's time when you can stay out.

Of course, it is difficult to arrive at a big team in the first place, but it is even harder to stay there.

It's no simple task getting the very best from each and every member of the squad.